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us. your book reflects that. it has been endorsed by scholars and civil liberties leaders across the board and it has been very, very high praise and rightfully so. what about habeas corpus make you think that it was an important thing for you to spend the last few years of your life on? what about it can help us in our fight for liberty in the midst of war and terror? >> well, during the bush years of the war on terror i was, like many other americans, horrified by a number of practices. the most fundamental liberties, the right of habeas corpus. like many other civil libertarians, i believe that the legal history of habeas corpus would be on our side. that if i just looked into it could, but in her tired silver bullet argument for there were doing. research more in the paper became a book. personally i lot rockier and less clear-cut than that. starting in england which is more important than in my soon to a lot of people and the estates. if the supreme court decision often discussed in
us. your book reflects that. it has been endorsed by scholars and civil liberties leaders across the board and it has been very, very high praise and rightfully so. what about habeas corpus make you think that it was an important thing for you to spend the last few years of your life on? what about it can help us in our fight for liberty in the midst of war and terror? >> well, during the bush years of the war on terror i was, like many other americans, horrified by a number of practices....
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are being used. there have been several limited studies in this area of the past several decades so i'm pleased today and we'll have the international association of police. we are covering the hope for the past 10 years and this was done with the research center. john is the research individual who is a director and he will be handing this to us. the state association are like a distinguished perception from reality and this includes myths with reliable information that proves otherwise were confirming and proper procedures or practices that need to be addressed. today as evident by your practices to move forward, particularly in regards to media and government bodies. the study will facilitate a more accurate view of these actions for perspective overtime versus focusing on anecdotal incidents. i know there are other areas of concern as mentioned in the book. we will have comments on this. and these initiatives need to be renewed and reviewed and discussed in a public forum with legislators and wha
are being used. there have been several limited studies in this area of the past several decades so i'm pleased today and we'll have the international association of police. we are covering the hope for the past 10 years and this was done with the research center. john is the research individual who is a director and he will be handing this to us. the state association are like a distinguished perception from reality and this includes myths with reliable information that proves otherwise were...
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we used a real country, but i stopped using real countries and started to use fictional countries as i found that the students were bogging down. they were not winning the game very well after a few years and i didn't know why. i questioned them and finally came to light. the real countries look at the newspaper and ask our parents would take their suggestions and do what they do. real problems, real world. of course they were solving. so we kept the real problems and kept going. today, the world peace game from his forfeit a five-foot on the floor is a four-foot by four-foot by four-foot glass tower. it towers over most of my fourth graders, nine euros in virginia where i teach these days. this tower emulates our earth. there are four layers. there are 44 by four she said plexiglas stack one above the other to make a space in between each layer horizontally. on each layer we have hundreds of game pieces, mostly from hobby shops and toy stores. i've collect them over the decades. the bottom level is called the undersea level. submarines, undersea mining, coral reefs endangered specie
we used a real country, but i stopped using real countries and started to use fictional countries as i found that the students were bogging down. they were not winning the game very well after a few years and i didn't know why. i questioned them and finally came to light. the real countries look at the newspaper and ask our parents would take their suggestions and do what they do. real problems, real world. of course they were solving. so we kept the real problems and kept going. today, the...
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all we're doing is setting a floor for people to use. it's extremely likely that the high deductible thresholds henry quotes will be brought down by individuals seeking coverage on the private market just like they purchase coverage today. we have increased the floor subsidies over the aca and the status quo. i think that's a an important point. the ore point that's relevant is that ending community rating actually makes it cheaper for healthy people to go out and buy down their deductibles, for example. so it actually becomes more feasible to bring your deductible down a lot if you're in one of the healthier groups. now, to the points that henry made about the prediction of medical spending, he's 100% correct that predicting medical spending is difficult and not much of the variance is explained by it. i will note that current policy already attempts to make these kinds of distinctions by transferring more medicaid coverage to people who are medically needy, for example, and i would also agree with henry, i presume he would say this and
all we're doing is setting a floor for people to use. it's extremely likely that the high deductible thresholds henry quotes will be brought down by individuals seeking coverage on the private market just like they purchase coverage today. we have increased the floor subsidies over the aca and the status quo. i think that's a an important point. the ore point that's relevant is that ending community rating actually makes it cheaper for healthy people to go out and buy down their deductibles,...
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that is to say everybody wants to use the networking. that, of course, was characteristic of the gold standard from about 1717, i would argue, until 1914 in the first world war. everybody wanted to be in this networking because everybody wanted to make their payments in a currency that was a standard acceptable worldwide in all forms of trade and payments. so that the disadvantage of having one state, eleven states, or twelve state you still have a networking in place. namely the federal reserve note as legal tender which is you -- which everybody is connected and in the habit of making payment at the grocery store or wire transfer for a security purchase, and as a result it's very hard to displace the networking as everyone tried to displace microsoft's networking -- it's very difficult once the standard established. this is a profound eater -- effort in the. sot the leader. we need a congressional action establishing the monetary standard under the unique powers given by the constitution of the united states under article i. and diswie
that is to say everybody wants to use the networking. that, of course, was characteristic of the gold standard from about 1717, i would argue, until 1914 in the first world war. everybody wanted to be in this networking because everybody wanted to make their payments in a currency that was a standard acceptable worldwide in all forms of trade and payments. so that the disadvantage of having one state, eleven states, or twelve state you still have a networking in place. namely the federal...
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recently with the kennedy house is the cbo used? >> it should have been used in two ways. the one way that was used is to be able to help the super committee and set the parameters of what they were going to do. so that director elmendorf testified multiple times before the super committee on the nature of the problem was facing the country and what kind of things would need to happen, but would be a reasonable trajectory for trying to get the deficit down and clearly the cbo staff behind the scenes worked with the super committee answering questions. there's an awful lot of work cbo does that isn't visible but they are providing advice when asked congressional staff committees. what would have happened is if the super committee had been successful is that the cbo would have had to score whatever legislative changes the super committee came up with in order to determine whether they actually met the target set from the super committee. at least $1.2 trillion over ten years in order to prevent the automatic sequestration from taking effect if they had gotten that far which
recently with the kennedy house is the cbo used? >> it should have been used in two ways. the one way that was used is to be able to help the super committee and set the parameters of what they were going to do. so that director elmendorf testified multiple times before the super committee on the nature of the problem was facing the country and what kind of things would need to happen, but would be a reasonable trajectory for trying to get the deficit down and clearly the cbo staff behind...
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i think that gives us, gets us to a good point. people by chance are born in one country or another the it seems natural to want to follow the opportunity. what do you do the? >> i would have bothered god yet again with yet another request. i would have gone to the neighboring country. >> i think let's talk a bit about, so some of the barriers, i know you've written about this, we don't have a good way to come your. that's part of the problem. what are some of the problems about not having a way to come into the country? >> that's a good point because if you sort of seal the border with mexico, let's be honest, the great maturity of unauthorized immigrants come here for work. then those work opportunities will be open and how are they going to be filled? will they be filled with these overstays? will be filled with illegal immigrants? will they start coming in from canada? it's interesting to think even not going to fill the void with some workers, that was a void previously been filled by unauthorized immigrants, then how is this,
i think that gives us, gets us to a good point. people by chance are born in one country or another the it seems natural to want to follow the opportunity. what do you do the? >> i would have bothered god yet again with yet another request. i would have gone to the neighboring country. >> i think let's talk a bit about, so some of the barriers, i know you've written about this, we don't have a good way to come your. that's part of the problem. what are some of the problems about not...
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[applause] but we are so used to, i'm so used to using the word partner and having that feeling about that like, oh, it feels sort of bad. it just feels a little -- it does feel second class. it is second class. i'm not a lawyer. i never aspire to be a partner in my life, you know? [laughter] but the word wife is working out pretty well. i like that one. so it really does change. the day that we got married and i got my fourth ring because we are gay people, we need lots of rings to commemorate our marriages -- [laughter] the day that we got married i honestly felt calmer. i felt like my heart rate, my blood pressure just went down a little bit like, yeah, you know? things are going to be okay. this is real. it's the real deal, and our families are going to understand it better, and we can stop fighting in court, we can stop being in court over it, and we both felt a hot calmer, and i feel more legitimate in some bizarre way in this world. because in our country and in our society marriage means something. >> more from that conversation at 5:45 eastern. and then we'll talk to journali
[applause] but we are so used to, i'm so used to using the word partner and having that feeling about that like, oh, it feels sort of bad. it just feels a little -- it does feel second class. it is second class. i'm not a lawyer. i never aspire to be a partner in my life, you know? [laughter] but the word wife is working out pretty well. i like that one. so it really does change. the day that we got married and i got my fourth ring because we are gay people, we need lots of rings to commemorate...
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about what they are doing to us. there was a time, i am quite sure, not that this country ever had a golden age of freedom, it always had severe deviation from its ideal for delivery but there never was a time in the past when americans would have tolerated this kind of treatment and the fact that we are doing it today does not speak well of us at all. >> it is hopeful for some of us that there is beginning to be growing protest and backlash against this. there are new revelations almost daily, came out a couple days ago about the cards being captured, in testimony before congress it was revealed they are in fact capturing everybody's information, not just terrorists, he essentially everybody in any network whatsoever, so the revelations are unfolding, building to critical mass preceding the backlash that will do something about this. 9 independence don independencet organized itself in 80 cities including a facility in utah, it will hold 5 had a bite of data and the context, the entire world wide web is half of a da
about what they are doing to us. there was a time, i am quite sure, not that this country ever had a golden age of freedom, it always had severe deviation from its ideal for delivery but there never was a time in the past when americans would have tolerated this kind of treatment and the fact that we are doing it today does not speak well of us at all. >> it is hopeful for some of us that there is beginning to be growing protest and backlash against this. there are new revelations almost...
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she wanted us to stand up. she wanted us to charge the barricades. she wanted us to understand that comprise was good as as long as we comprised up. that is as long as we petitioned ourselves in silos of political belief, we would go wack back ward. continue to be unready in her words, to face the challenges that we as americans owed one another at home and the challenges we, in americans, of the world. and so before i talk a little bit about the book, and the story how she stayed alive to finish it, and why i think it is herman -- her manifesto i would like to thank nancy roosevelt. when you take a book in copyright, and major publisher owns that copyright, it's very hard to get that copyright back. and this book was published it hit the stands approximately five months after eleanor roosevelt died. wasn't around to hock it. she wasn't around to go on "meet the press" or "face the nation" or do one of her tv show "prospect of mankind" to talk about it. none of the major book review editors like "the new york times," or publishers weekly or "reader's
she wanted us to stand up. she wanted us to charge the barricades. she wanted us to understand that comprise was good as as long as we comprised up. that is as long as we petitioned ourselves in silos of political belief, we would go wack back ward. continue to be unready in her words, to face the challenges that we as americans owed one another at home and the challenges we, in americans, of the world. and so before i talk a little bit about the book, and the story how she stayed alive to...
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for or not used for. once they are in place question rest easy they're not going to be used for the big brother type of use. that will be good for the drone industry. we can see a lot of innovation and innovative cool new use for the technology without people having to worry about, you know, being watched every minute. >> very good. when you talk about that per pervasive surveillance. are you personally aware of any law enforcement afganistans that have utilized the technology in that manner? something you would character as abusive? >> we saw the mayor of ogden, utah fielding a bumper over certain neighborhoods in the city that would have cameras on it. he was turned down by the faa. they did meet the current regulatory rules. we saw the dayton, ohio work with a private company to carry out surveillance tracking within the rather large area using manned aircraft. and, you know, manned aircraft circling over and video taping everything and tracking everything as sort of a test. the technology is here. the
for or not used for. once they are in place question rest easy they're not going to be used for the big brother type of use. that will be good for the drone industry. we can see a lot of innovation and innovative cool new use for the technology without people having to worry about, you know, being watched every minute. >> very good. when you talk about that per pervasive surveillance. are you personally aware of any law enforcement afganistans that have utilized the technology in that...
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educational experience for us. we decided to focus on the washington star collection and the historical society said there is a few things in our collection that once we started looking at the photographs it became clear that the was the direction that we wanted to go. i don't know if all of you have had a chance to see it and will be available after words but there are some very powerful images among that collection and they were all press images, but they tell a very clear story about the structure of the day, the organization and the amount of pain the planners want to to make sure that everything was organized and peaceful. that is the cheek true that we took. do you want to add? >> the research that we did when we found that order and security was the theme of the planners, the local d.c. planners. the goal was to make sure that everything went off successfully this was the largest demonstration at that point in the civil rights movement. so the big ten or six, big 1046 -- [laughter] the kind of put it on loca
educational experience for us. we decided to focus on the washington star collection and the historical society said there is a few things in our collection that once we started looking at the photographs it became clear that the was the direction that we wanted to go. i don't know if all of you have had a chance to see it and will be available after words but there are some very powerful images among that collection and they were all press images, but they tell a very clear story about the...
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they do things to us. they help us digest food. they tweak the immune system. they affect us in all kinds of ways that we have never really understood before. yet you call it big science in your article. why is that? guest: what happened in the late 1990's is that researchers developed technology that enabled them to identify every microbe in the human body for the first time. before that, they were only able to identify the ones that happened to be happy in a petri dish that could survive there in a culture, and you are looking at thousands of species in the body all at the same time, all of them with multiple genes, and trying to make sense of that and make sense of how they interact with each other so that the data that comes out of this is just overwhelming. it overwhelms supercomputers. it is hard to deal with. each individual is also a friend, so that is a lot to digest. host: who is doing the research? what group? guest: the thing that has made the micro biome a really hot topic is that about about five years ago the national institutes of health began s
they do things to us. they help us digest food. they tweak the immune system. they affect us in all kinds of ways that we have never really understood before. yet you call it big science in your article. why is that? guest: what happened in the late 1990's is that researchers developed technology that enabled them to identify every microbe in the human body for the first time. before that, they were only able to identify the ones that happened to be happy in a petri dish that could survive...
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keep us from becoming weary in doing what is right, as you use us for your instruments in these challenging times. empower our senators to bring your freedom to those shackled by fear. help them to lift the burdens that are too heavy for people to carry. lengthen their vision that they may see beyond today and make decisions that will have an impact for eternity. and, lord, in a special way bless dave schiappa as he prepares to transition to new vocational opportunities. thank you for his decades of faithful service for you and country on capitol hill. be gracious to him and his family. we pray in your loving name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., august 1, 2013. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i
keep us from becoming weary in doing what is right, as you use us for your instruments in these challenging times. empower our senators to bring your freedom to those shackled by fear. help them to lift the burdens that are too heavy for people to carry. lengthen their vision that they may see beyond today and make decisions that will have an impact for eternity. and, lord, in a special way bless dave schiappa as he prepares to transition to new vocational opportunities. thank you for his...
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no fooling us again. i think this time if we don't do what we are lost. >> you go to a lot of conferences and gatherings and one of the most exciting thing to me is a great numbers of young people when i was at that age group now there are a lot of young people involved there very principled and active in and organizing it unique ways using the power of social media and other thing is. in very interested to pursue these ideas and put into action in a principled way. so that gives me a tremendous hope and optimism >> when i was a student interested in these ideas considerably smaller than now eliot that is very encouraging. i think one reason the user often attracted to ideas is they have a long-term outlook. in many cases they know the short-term is not the greatest hope they don't buy as much into the fleeing controversies in thinking in the long term and hopeful in that sense in that is the way i am hopeful in the long run i think eventually something has to give and there are too many internal contradi
no fooling us again. i think this time if we don't do what we are lost. >> you go to a lot of conferences and gatherings and one of the most exciting thing to me is a great numbers of young people when i was at that age group now there are a lot of young people involved there very principled and active in and organizing it unique ways using the power of social media and other thing is. in very interested to pursue these ideas and put into action in a principled way. so that gives me a...
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used, whether used, outcomes, the quick use. there have been several limited studies in an area over the past several decades with nothing as far as the national police search study. so i am pleased to announce today here that does ntoa is in the final agreement with the international association of chiefs of police to conduct a national survey in the research project covering the past 10 years for the use of tactical teams. the ntoa will fund the research project conduct to along with the chicago-based national research center. i would like to introduce mr. john berman. johnny cia cpu research standard direct her and he will be handling this endeavor. the ntoa and state associations will distinguish perception from reality, debunking myths were reliable information proves otherwise for confirming a proper procedures or practices that need to be addressed. today is evident by your attendance, many individuals have interest in understanding tactical teams practice is more fully, particularly citizens, and media, organizations and
used, whether used, outcomes, the quick use. there have been several limited studies in an area over the past several decades with nothing as far as the national police search study. so i am pleased to announce today here that does ntoa is in the final agreement with the international association of chiefs of police to conduct a national survey in the research project covering the past 10 years for the use of tactical teams. the ntoa will fund the research project conduct to along with the...
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she lets us know she does not like it one bit. she founded crude and homely but true to her nature she made the best of it. as a young married women she wanted to be the mistress of her own home. she just thought that he should have built something is nice as as -- and her father had talked grant into building a log structured. julia would have brought with her the finer things because as a privileged child she would have had fine china or she would have had fine furniture that would have been, pulled chairs and a broad table because you had at this point she would have had five people living in this dining room. what is important about hardscrabble for them and even though they do not live in it for very long is that this represents their very first home together. julia would gain a great deal of confidence as a wife and mother and it starts at hardscrabble.
she lets us know she does not like it one bit. she founded crude and homely but true to her nature she made the best of it. as a young married women she wanted to be the mistress of her own home. she just thought that he should have built something is nice as as -- and her father had talked grant into building a log structured. julia would have brought with her the finer things because as a privileged child she would have had fine china or she would have had fine furniture that would have been,...
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and he was wonderful to me and to us, and both he and mrs. frankfurter, who became a friend, too, were very, very close to us. c-span: how many children did you and phil graham have? >> guest: we had four. we had--i have four. my oldest is elizabeth weymouth, who is a journalist and writes for the post and on foreign affairs, but other things, too. c-span: known as lally? >> guest: known as lally. and donald, who is chief executive officer of the company. william, called bill, who has an investment partnership in los angeles, but who lives on the vineyard in the summer and is very interested and loves the vineyard and lives next door to me with his children, and i love that. and steven, who is married and lives in new york and is getting a postgraduate degree in--in literature and is in teaching, but he has been in the theater and has produced and--and has an experimental theater going. c-span: you lost a son? >> guest: i lost our first baby, which was tremendously traumatic, who was born full term, but because it was in washington during--at
and he was wonderful to me and to us, and both he and mrs. frankfurter, who became a friend, too, were very, very close to us. c-span: how many children did you and phil graham have? >> guest: we had four. we had--i have four. my oldest is elizabeth weymouth, who is a journalist and writes for the post and on foreign affairs, but other things, too. c-span: known as lally? >> guest: known as lally. and donald, who is chief executive officer of the company. william, called bill, who...
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other--many other names were used for them. c-span: you write in your book that as soon as he was born, he was handed off to somebody else to raise him? >> guest: he--yes, he--he has what to us would seem a sort of bizarre upbringing. he's reared apart from his parents in a detached palace. but this doesn't mean that this little boy is denied the--the warmth of concerned parents. his father and mother care for him very much, but the--from an early age, it is is true, he's taken and entrusted to an admiral to be given a modern type of rearing, and that was considered--in those days, the military was at the forefront of modernization, and the young hirohito was to be the first, very first emperor reared and educated under the modern imperial system, because for hundreds of years, for--emperors had been removed from politics and they were encouraged to study poetry, write poetry, but to take no interest in political affairs. now, hirohito's great-grandfather was an exception, and meiji, of course was the exception, but neither of
other--many other names were used for them. c-span: you write in your book that as soon as he was born, he was handed off to somebody else to raise him? >> guest: he--yes, he--he has what to us would seem a sort of bizarre upbringing. he's reared apart from his parents in a detached palace. but this doesn't mean that this little boy is denied the--the warmth of concerned parents. his father and mother care for him very much, but the--from an early age, it is is true, he's taken and...
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he decides this amazing thing is hijack a plane and use the capt. as a bargaining chip to liberate angeles davis so i will read your about him in 1972 roger is making his plan on this live without telling cathy kerkow just a few days away from the hijacking. white non dash ready cathy kerkow ready to visit her father writer redoubled the efforts to finalize the edge of the davis plan with each recent skyjacking taking notes of what works and what didn't. there is no shortage of intriguing case studies including a pair that place of the same day a young north dakota and recently drafted to havana he did so with the note he has heavy armed members of the imperialists movement to make sure the skies would not be safe again. an almost exact same moment a hijacked plane touched down in cuba with a 49 year-old bailed out of the eastern airlines boeing 727 as it flew into honduras and carry $303,000 in ransom paid by the airlines as a stop in washington d.c.. he finished into the jungle there was a rumor you donate money to the marxist insurgents his plan
he decides this amazing thing is hijack a plane and use the capt. as a bargaining chip to liberate angeles davis so i will read your about him in 1972 roger is making his plan on this live without telling cathy kerkow just a few days away from the hijacking. white non dash ready cathy kerkow ready to visit her father writer redoubled the efforts to finalize the edge of the davis plan with each recent skyjacking taking notes of what works and what didn't. there is no shortage of intriguing case...
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on book tv, erick stackelbeck talks about the history of the muslim brotherhood and the influence it deals in egypt and across the middle east today. he argues that even though morsi , a leading member of the muslim brotherhood was recently ousted to my brother is still a dangerous group not to be taken lightly. about an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> i think really the best thing about my life is that i have wonderful friends and many of them are here. one of them is this brilliant, brilliant individual, and i don't mean that in the british sense, but the american sense. erick stackelbeck has written a groundbreaking book on the muslim brotherhood. it's called "the brotherhood: america's next great enemy." i am a slow reader, but i went through read in one afternoon because i could not put it down. it is such a page turner. i think number one on amazon in terms of books about the middle east. it is reading to show how this organizatio
tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on book tv, erick stackelbeck talks about the history of the muslim brotherhood and the influence it deals in egypt and across the middle east today. he argues that even though morsi , a leading member of the muslim brotherhood was recently ousted to my brother is still a dangerous group not to be taken lightly. about an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> i think really the best thing about my life is that i have...
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but we use -- this is kennedy's point. we used to take challenges. god, we went to the moon. and when kennedy said, we're going to the moon, they did not know how there are going to the moon. and so we asked, why go to the moon? he gave the most famous answer which cribs and still today. because it is hard. because it will organize the best and gas. who talks like that now? but you know, we don't even take on challenges. what if the president of the united states said, it is our costa and poverty and we meet, not to give a speech and then never say it again, but actually mean it with money behind it, with resources, commitment, that would galvanize young people around this country in a minute flat, just like that people are hungry for meaning. but we don't have it. nobody believes in it. and so the answer on the peace corps is it does wonderful things abroad, but even more importantly, it does wonderful things in the minds of american young people. and it has since 1961. .. >> thank you so much. [inaudible conversations] >> for more information visit the
but we use -- this is kennedy's point. we used to take challenges. god, we went to the moon. and when kennedy said, we're going to the moon, they did not know how there are going to the moon. and so we asked, why go to the moon? he gave the most famous answer which cribs and still today. because it is hard. because it will organize the best and gas. who talks like that now? but you know, we don't even take on challenges. what if the president of the united states said, it is our costa and...
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it used to be a $2 billion account. it was nothing to buy things like humvees and radios and so on and so forth. and so, you know, you say, okay, humvees, radios, ultimately what that translate into -- and the correlation is difficult to make -- is it translates into people's well being for the military. and so that's what we're looking for in the long term. but in the near term, defense department has enough tools to be able to minimize some of the impacts of sequestration and uncertainty. >> dennis williams, you're representing, in a sense, the domestic side here. >> [inaudible] >> the bread and the butter. all right. [laughter] and omb's asking for fy-2015 budgets to have a 10% cut. what tools did you use in hhs when you were there -- let me recap, dennis, you were budget officer for how many years? >> 16 years. >> yeah, a long period in the '80s. you moved to hrsa, the health resources administration, where you were -- >> deputy administrator. >> and then came down to run recovery act for the secretary until just fa
it used to be a $2 billion account. it was nothing to buy things like humvees and radios and so on and so forth. and so, you know, you say, okay, humvees, radios, ultimately what that translate into -- and the correlation is difficult to make -- is it translates into people's well being for the military. and so that's what we're looking for in the long term. but in the near term, defense department has enough tools to be able to minimize some of the impacts of sequestration and uncertainty....
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tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy is politically induced. [applause] >> so, the question is what is the role of secrecy and diplomacy? and extended from that, what are your feelings about mr. snowden and the relations between the united states and russia now that he has been granted -- >> i thought it was a friendly audience? [laughter] i know that, look, i will give you what i think. i may be wrong about all of this. i think there's a real tension, and always has been, but particularly in a globalized, highly integrated internet society of the type we have now. there's a tension between s
tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy...
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us as a pronoun, but also us has to very interesting matters, u.s. robert day, the young man, i talked with him earlier. and he said, you know, his biggest concern and he didn't mention this, as getting involved, standing up, of even coming here and speaking. i want you to understand come even coming here and speaking and being on c-span for the world to see, he said was fear. fear. fear that he might lose his job. and the other thing that really moved all of us was the pain. and i think i remember hearing congressman elijah cummings once gave a speech and he said pain leads to passion and passion has to lead to a purpose. pain brings about passion and we felt that pain. i saw your faces. we felt that pain. and we now have to take that pain that now brings passion. but the passion has to be what? it has to have a purpose. and that leads me to the final point before i bring marcia up, is the late professor ron walters was once asked by students at fisk university, dr. wolters, what is the difference between a moment any movement because he lectured on
us as a pronoun, but also us has to very interesting matters, u.s. robert day, the young man, i talked with him earlier. and he said, you know, his biggest concern and he didn't mention this, as getting involved, standing up, of even coming here and speaking. i want you to understand come even coming here and speaking and being on c-span for the world to see, he said was fear. fear. fear that he might lose his job. and the other thing that really moved all of us was the pain. and i think i...
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in fact, they would use them to study. roger holder told me about studying other hijackings to see what of the hijackers had done that was wrong. the amazing phenomena of these so-called pair of jacks, people who would parachute out the first the first guy to do it like really messed up the ended up like getting head in -- getting hit in head with a fire expert in d. b. cooper who jumped out and to my mind, and died on the way down. and yet the next guy who jumps out, and he makes it to the ground but he made one mistake but he wore cowboy boots. and so he sprained his ankle upon landing and find them like in a week you a mobile. the next guy to do it was better boots. and like they improve and improve and improve and become like one of each other. this person got 5000 i'm kind of get 502000. so there was no question that the media influenced, the virus what i call this, traveled through the media reports. there was a lot of talk about limiting media access to hijackings. this was kind of like the early heyday of the 6:00
in fact, they would use them to study. roger holder told me about studying other hijackings to see what of the hijackers had done that was wrong. the amazing phenomena of these so-called pair of jacks, people who would parachute out the first the first guy to do it like really messed up the ended up like getting head in -- getting hit in head with a fire expert in d. b. cooper who jumped out and to my mind, and died on the way down. and yet the next guy who jumps out, and he makes it to the...
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tweet us@booktv. post it on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail at @booktv@c-span.org. >>> the last few years, the left decided that the political debate is worthless. they're not going debate politics. .. live the first sunday of every month at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> now we return to afterwards with martin clancy in tim o'brien. murder at the supreme court. >> i wanted to take a moment to get to the real meat of the book and talk about some of the cases that released to that to you both speak to one of the truly landmark cases of anyone who practices death penalty law and a lot of people that don't are familiar with the case of gravers is georgia. the supreme court threw out the death penalty in 1972 finding was implemented in an arbitrary and capricious manner and that was like getting struck by lightning. the states rewrote the death penalty laws. another case came up in 1976 called greg versus georgia where they had the opportunity to see what the states had done, let georgia h
tweet us@booktv. post it on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail at @booktv@c-span.org. >>> the last few years, the left decided that the political debate is worthless. they're not going debate politics. .. live the first sunday of every month at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> now we return to afterwards with martin clancy in tim o'brien. murder at the supreme court. >> i wanted to take a moment to get to the real meat of the book and talk about some of the cases...
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tweet us @booktv. post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at c-span.org. >>> should be a flow of communication available to everyone in the country. so it's just like the electricity. we turn on lights, we don't even think about it. it's an input in to everything we do as a country. communication schowb the same thing. because we've ban little confused. there's a lot of fog around the issue. people have a sense that internet access a luxury. what is interesting that electricity was treated as a luxury too. in the early 20th century water everybody needs and slct for the rich. it took decades to change the perception from one thing to another. we're in the middle point right now that internet access is viewed as something slightly magical or expensive. but talk to someone trying to run a business from his home. for him internet access is just like -- he can't even get going without having that reasonable price connection. now there's no option for it. >> how america's economic future is being
tweet us @booktv. post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at c-span.org. >>> should be a flow of communication available to everyone in the country. so it's just like the electricity. we turn on lights, we don't even think about it. it's an input in to everything we do as a country. communication schowb the same thing. because we've ban little confused. there's a lot of fog around the issue. people have a sense that internet access a luxury. what is interesting that...
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right to use military force. if lucy takes the ball away from charlie brown, that was a -- if the iranians don't negotiate in good faith, we spent four or five months at the negotiating table, we are still going have sanctions on them. and we're still going to have the right to use military force if we choose to do that, and the israelis will have the same right because neither of us can afford to see a nuclear weapon iran. it's absolutely indefensible. and insupportable in the middle east to see iran become a nuclear weapons power. so i would say that president obama and president bush have covered the danger of lucy taking the football away. on the second question, the most bizarre government in the world is north korea. i mean, it just is. if you think about over the last couple of decades, we talked to everybody. we talked to castro cuba. we have a diplomatic mission. we talked to hugo chavez when he was president of the venezuela. we talked fitfully unsuccessfully to the iranians. we have had much of a relat
right to use military force. if lucy takes the ball away from charlie brown, that was a -- if the iranians don't negotiate in good faith, we spent four or five months at the negotiating table, we are still going have sanctions on them. and we're still going to have the right to use military force if we choose to do that, and the israelis will have the same right because neither of us can afford to see a nuclear weapon iran. it's absolutely indefensible. and insupportable in the middle east to...
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the red line is the use of cw, the use of chemical weapons. that was crossed months ago, and the president took action, which we talked about at the time. we're still focused orphan nailing down the facts. the intelligence community focused on that, administration focused on that, and if the reports are true, it's an outrageous and flagrant exescalation by the regime. we have to nail down the facts. the president, of course, has a range of options that we've talked about before that he can certainly consider, and, of course, discuss with the national security team. >> host: how would you describe your effort to put nixon folks on the record on tape or recording it? >> guest: well, i had a challenge that the federal government was taking over a private museum and library, and i was asked to be the first federal director. this is a library that had been in place for 17 years, roughly a hundred thousand people visited a year. .. >> host: this is in california. >> guest: california. i thought the best way as a historian. i wont nixon specialist, w
the red line is the use of cw, the use of chemical weapons. that was crossed months ago, and the president took action, which we talked about at the time. we're still focused orphan nailing down the facts. the intelligence community focused on that, administration focused on that, and if the reports are true, it's an outrageous and flagrant exescalation by the regime. we have to nail down the facts. the president, of course, has a range of options that we've talked about before that he can...
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, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them so people whose houses happened to be flown over the privacy that is dated but we're focused on that surveillance, watching everybody all the time. we think drones have technology that has a lot of potential to do good and really it is in everybody's interest to pin down the privacy question, put in place common sense protection and we don't have to worry about privacy, that will free public safety agencies to use these technologies without the clout of big brother hanging over us. >> did you have something to say on that topic? >> this year, boston police department use an online system over th
, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them...
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thank you for joining us. governor fallon is going make some comment and we're going turn it over to q & a and the governors will have a chance to chime in as they see fit. with that, governor fallon. >> thank you. >> thank you. what a beautiful place it is to be this morning. governor walker, stunning view. thank you for hosting us here. we appreciate your work on behalf of the national governor's association. -- you lead us a great year of productivity and working on many important issues for our nation tps. been a great success. we are glad to be join by our fellow colleagues that joined us here. thank you for coming this morning. i know, i certainly am going take valuable lessons from you, jack, as we continue to move the nga along and have the opportunity this sunday we have a change of relationship. -- leadership. i want to take a moment to thank governorwalker and his wife for a wonderful weekend. we had a great time last night we have some of the colleagues that went down the slide on the burlap sacks.
thank you for joining us. governor fallon is going make some comment and we're going turn it over to q & a and the governors will have a chance to chime in as they see fit. with that, governor fallon. >> thank you. >> thank you. what a beautiful place it is to be this morning. governor walker, stunning view. thank you for hosting us here. we appreciate your work on behalf of the national governor's association. -- you lead us a great year of productivity and working on many...
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us too much. i don't see that. they expected a ploy. they know what they're getting into. they want predictability as much as possible, but they do want an opportunity to deploy. so what i think we have to do, we have to figure out, what is that right active component reserve component makes that the nation needs for security? a strategic hedge against a very uncertain world, but how do we maintain an all volunteer force both active and reserve component balance and then not break the fate of our people? our people, our warriors to expect to deploy. just over the weekend and number of difference that -- states. 2430 in each group. every time i would ask how many did -- how many times deployed, one-third to one-half of the group have already deployed. how many want to deploy in the future? every hand goes up. and is a balance we have to look at. we do need to continue to the gate -- indeed in the operational missions of our services. we have to look like the army in the air force and have missions
us too much. i don't see that. they expected a ploy. they know what they're getting into. they want predictability as much as possible, but they do want an opportunity to deploy. so what i think we have to do, we have to figure out, what is that right active component reserve component makes that the nation needs for security? a strategic hedge against a very uncertain world, but how do we maintain an all volunteer force both active and reserve component balance and then not break the fate of...
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since we committed the atrocities of using those bombs, no one is using them and no one will use them, because there is not just mutual deterrence. there's mutual destruction or and no one is come in this instance, suicide, despite the fact we think there to russia and so subtle, they are not. the bottom line is, take away the bragging rights and ridicule is the better solution. you wanted, what are you going to do with the? are you going to feature people with the? are you going to sit on the? you can use it. and the notion they would give them a dirty bomb. look, dirty bombs are available now. if terrorists want them, tears can get their hands on anything if they want to, anything can become a bomb. so the issue is off the table. the issue is, at the threat that iran poses, is bragging rights across the water. they want the bomb so they can say we've got the bomb, we are big. take away that by making them appear small. ridicule is better than threats. it reduces your opposition much more effectively than threats you can deliver on. so i think at the same time, one of the things i th
since we committed the atrocities of using those bombs, no one is using them and no one will use them, because there is not just mutual deterrence. there's mutual destruction or and no one is come in this instance, suicide, despite the fact we think there to russia and so subtle, they are not. the bottom line is, take away the bragging rights and ridicule is the better solution. you wanted, what are you going to do with the? are you going to feature people with the? are you going to sit on the?...
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they looked at the figures and they they were going to overtake us. i made the point to a wonderful column pointing this out, and there's a moment here, a forgotten moment of alarm and anxiety when they look like the winners. let's try to get back in the heads of people who thought that way then because history just doesn't go on by us answering questions, but by us going -- by asking complete news of the questions and forgetting past ones meaning the past is more mysterious than it looks, to get inside the mind set, even in the path of 40 # years ago is often to enter another world. it is science fiction, but i'm landing on the planet ussr in 1960 and behaving as if that is a set of aliens who need the tools of science fiction to explain them. >> host: previous guest on the series was robert mccrumb of the observer saying writers in britain can't be just writers, they have to be writers and something else. do you have a day job? >> guest: i do. i'm a writer and a teacher of writing. i teach e equivalent of a course, but halftime, tuesday and wednesda
they looked at the figures and they they were going to overtake us. i made the point to a wonderful column pointing this out, and there's a moment here, a forgotten moment of alarm and anxiety when they look like the winners. let's try to get back in the heads of people who thought that way then because history just doesn't go on by us answering questions, but by us going -- by asking complete news of the questions and forgetting past ones meaning the past is more mysterious than it looks, to...
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i think both of us having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have it particular resonance for us but i wanted to start off an ask you view our supreme court and presidential scholar. how did you get interested in rose? is going up and interest in the kennedy family since i was a little tyke. when i was four years old my mother took him my brothers to downtown louisville kentucky. she piled a sinner 56 chevrolet and drove us downtown to the courthouse. she was completely drawn to this new candidate on the scene in the presidential race, senator john f. kennedy. >> host: do you think it was because she was catholic? >> guest: i have to think that was a major part of it in addition to which he was about. so see with that new generation to which the torch was being passed that i point out that while she loves history and politics she wasn't that active in grassroots politics and she didn't particularly like driving downtown on the very busy streets. i know it was his charisma and probably the policies and let's face it is handsome looks. >> host: he was a pretty good-looking guy. >>
i think both of us having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have it particular resonance for us but i wanted to start off an ask you view our supreme court and presidential scholar. how did you get interested in rose? is going up and interest in the kennedy family since i was a little tyke. when i was four years old my mother took him my brothers to downtown louisville kentucky. she piled a sinner 56 chevrolet and drove us downtown to the courthouse. she was completely drawn to this new...
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none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do it. in a year or two. it takes time. and one of the things we've got to have is sort after temporal sense. how long is it going to take to do these things? what are the right things to be looking at sort of year in, year out, that demonstrate progress? there's a tendency here very much to look at, for example, the fine work of this report and say, well, if you can't do it within six months it is not worth doing. you really have to have a long view. it takes time, it takes efforts. that's where we're finding in many o
none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do...
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we used to know who owned the news. it used to be big publying and broadcasting company. we don't know who is going to own the news. until we know who owns the news we don't know what kind of journalism we'll get. >> host: thank you for being on ""the communicators." >> guest: sure. up next former las vegas mayor oscar goodman on the auto biography. speaking in strisk today attorney general holder said rational disparity in the justice system are, quote, shame ful. here is a look. they are far to come. it's time to ask tough questions about how he can strengthen our communities, how question support young people. how we can address the fact that young black and latino men are disproportionately likely to become involved in the criminal justice system as victims as well as perpetrators. we also must conflict the reality that once they are in that system, people of color. one deeply troubling report indicates in recent years black male offenders have seven-day forecast sentences nearly 20% longer than those imposed on white male convicted of similar crime. it's not just una
we used to know who owned the news. it used to be big publying and broadcasting company. we don't know who is going to own the news. until we know who owns the news we don't know what kind of journalism we'll get. >> host: thank you for being on ""the communicators." >> guest: sure. up next former las vegas mayor oscar goodman on the auto biography. speaking in strisk today attorney general holder said rational disparity in the justice system are, quote, shame ful....
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you can follow us on twitter using hashtag njdecides. mayor cory booker starts the opening statements for us. mr. mayor. booker: good evening, mike. and i want to thank everybody who helped organize this debate. i begin my career action in newark, new jersey, but i was born in bergen county and raised in bergen county, one of our smallest towns at harrington park. after my education i chose to move to newark, not just in newark but one of our toughest neighborhoods. with the conviction that you bring people together, no matter how difficult the challenges you can make tremendous progress. the heroes are made in those early days, during my time as a person representing people who couldn't afford attorneys, they showed me that that philosophy that ideal could work. now, 15 years later going from a time when newark's headlines were more about crime and corruption, not about progress and possibility, now the city has changed. we have a lot more work to do but the truth is newark, new jersey, is seeing eminence progress. together in the commu
you can follow us on twitter using hashtag njdecides. mayor cory booker starts the opening statements for us. mr. mayor. booker: good evening, mike. and i want to thank everybody who helped organize this debate. i begin my career action in newark, new jersey, but i was born in bergen county and raised in bergen county, one of our smallest towns at harrington park. after my education i chose to move to newark, not just in newark but one of our toughest neighborhoods. with the conviction that you...
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i do mostly use archives and try to use mostly contemporary archives. to say the least there are at love books written. amazon with something like 60,000 hard cover tights. some were really good, needless to say. i try to come through that and be diligent and see what others have written. >> host: what was your dad stationed? >> guest: he got to europe at the end of the war. he enlisted in '43 went officer candidate school and a second lieutenant. he was in the con stab which was an interesting unit formed as if ended. the helmet had a yellow band. their job was to keep in order bar very -- had been utterly destroyed seven million dead german. there's no food or power. there's no running water. it's horrible. it's nation of 80 million people that have been utterly smashed. and so he was there for a year, came back went to college. penn state then went back to the army. he liked it enough he made it a career, subsequently he was a career army officer. so, you know, he had an interesting role of europe right at the end. >> host: where do you grow up? >> g
i do mostly use archives and try to use mostly contemporary archives. to say the least there are at love books written. amazon with something like 60,000 hard cover tights. some were really good, needless to say. i try to come through that and be diligent and see what others have written. >> host: what was your dad stationed? >> guest: he got to europe at the end of the war. he enlisted in '43 went officer candidate school and a second lieutenant. he was in the con stab which was an...
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when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able to give them an enormous story on standards and how they are applied, and how they are set. instead of just michael focusing on the initial question, which was writing about the x-ray. so tell us what you'r what you y writing about and we can help you better. and don't automatically assume that the government is evil and we are hiding stuff. because that is not the case. journalists have a code of ethics. trust but verify, but also not to violate the truth. just as welcome the government public affairs folks, believe it or not we have a code of ethics, and that code of ethics from the national
when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able...
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give us the lay of the land. but the river behind us. tell us, where are we? >> guest: obviously very centrally located here and the united states and the east coast. from open ocean. that chesapeake bay. a very large -- the largest -- second-largest bay and the united states. and the elizabeth river is where the majority of our profit flows. it is where three of our four -- one is -- well, two of them. richmond is also. >> host: a lot of history with the james chair, elizabeth river in this area. how has it changed over the years? >> guest: well, this used to be an army base. in 1909 this was a federal army base. so we have undergone reservation -- preservation since that time. over the last 15 years this complex has been completely renovated. the board itself has gone through a dramatic change. >> guest: a great point. the port of virginia, our terminals, we do a lot of container traffic. we do the role on, roll off. that cold ships require a lot of draft as well. we have partnerships with the navy. they're interested in the port of virginia. we also have th
give us the lay of the land. but the river behind us. tell us, where are we? >> guest: obviously very centrally located here and the united states and the east coast. from open ocean. that chesapeake bay. a very large -- the largest -- second-largest bay and the united states. and the elizabeth river is where the majority of our profit flows. it is where three of our four -- one is -- well, two of them. richmond is also. >> host: a lot of history with the james chair, elizabeth...
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it's an opportune to use these technology skills that you've got to help us find and put us in contact with families who had veterans or displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years ago and become in the next five to 10 years when we lose the rest of our world war ii veterans. i lost my dad five years ago. the things that are hanging on walls in basements and in attics, they will all have a new owner. we are at great risk for these things and four leverages our old musty documents of being thrown away. this is the chance to help with the tip of the iceberg we're getting ready now to see the last, help things get back to the people they belong to. so it's a great moment, and so for that reason we're spending a lot of time with the work of on the foundation, and the film coming up. i'll be headed back to berlin, and when i'm done with the book tour here, and then doing whatever i'm asked to do by the people involved with that as the fall picture, but really the work focuses now on the foundation. the writing of the book is something that i do. the foundation,
it's an opportune to use these technology skills that you've got to help us find and put us in contact with families who had veterans or displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years ago and become in the next five to 10 years when we lose the rest of our world war ii veterans. i lost my dad five years ago. the things that are hanging on walls in basements and in attics, they will all have a new owner. we are at great risk for these things and four leverages our old...
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vincent's lie to all of us. two weeks before the final result they told me everything was good with their budget. clearly, it was an. maybe if we moved more quickly, if they hadn't lied, things could differ but i'm proud of the efforts many of us did they kept st. vincent's open for months, but at the end of the day, st. vincent's canceled its contract for staff and that killed a. that first reason, if it had gone through without opposition, might have been a glimmer of hope. and it's sad now a protest where st. vincent used to be, the public advocate stance with people who went and testified against the that reselling. people like susan sarandon who said they would never send their children there. so you have to be what you are for all of the time. >> you have time to respond. >> let me say a word to the audience. to the extent that get those little outburst, it takes away time from all of the candidates and we don't want that to happen. we want to make sure everybody gets hurt. we will have a very quick respon
vincent's lie to all of us. two weeks before the final result they told me everything was good with their budget. clearly, it was an. maybe if we moved more quickly, if they hadn't lied, things could differ but i'm proud of the efforts many of us did they kept st. vincent's open for months, but at the end of the day, st. vincent's canceled its contract for staff and that killed a. that first reason, if it had gone through without opposition, might have been a glimmer of hope. and it's sad now a...
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they failed us. we looked to her congressman to do that, into your credit, 40 times you guys have come in and said to get benefit. insanity definition is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just, you, who is going to win the political power power-play if we shut down government. it's going to be what with the future of our country look like in a decade, because once the tentacles are there, it's too late to send out the back to look at social security. i think that is worth that risk. i also don't think he would come to that spent well, i think it would come to that. and, and -- if i can finish my point but i think it would come today. i don't think it would work. look, we can do as you suggest, that's no problem passing the original bill about it, that's fine but i it's not going anyple in the training center. it will have an attached to end it will come back. at that point i really do think about the consequence of thos
they failed us. we looked to her congressman to do that, into your credit, 40 times you guys have come in and said to get benefit. insanity definition is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just, you, who is going to win the political power power-play if we shut down government. it's going to be what with the future of our country look like in a decade, because once the tentacles are there, it's too late to send out...
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there were defeating us until the french came in and joined us in the french bailed us out and enabled us to win the revolution. that's a story most people really don't know. of course we returned the favor from time to the french after that which is a story most of us do know. the point is when i began to hear from audiences and people saying to me i didn't know that, that's fun. i'm thinking what story don't you know? how about world war i and? most americans get their history from hollywood which is a sad statement to make that if you think about world war ii versus world war i they are making them today. how many movies have been made about world war ii? hundreds and hundreds and i can count on one hand the good movies made about world war i. all quiet on the western front the original gallipoli and that's about it. most people just don't know about the lafayette or the red baron. the red baron by the way is not just a cartoon character as someone may wonder. he is a marvelous character and he is the german voice in that story. the marines at al lowood's. i'll bet you don't know th
there were defeating us until the french came in and joined us in the french bailed us out and enabled us to win the revolution. that's a story most people really don't know. of course we returned the favor from time to the french after that which is a story most of us do know. the point is when i began to hear from audiences and people saying to me i didn't know that, that's fun. i'm thinking what story don't you know? how about world war i and? most americans get their history from hollywood...
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they failed us. we've looked to her congressman to do that, into your credit, 40 times you guys have come in and said to get rid of it. insanity definition is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance. and it's more than just comment on who's going to win the political power play if we shut down government. it's going to be what with the future of our country look like in a decade. because once the tentacles are there, it's, it's, it's too late depend on the back. look at social security. i think that's worth the risk. and also don't think it would come to that. >> well, i think it would come to that. and -- i've met spent if i can finish my point. i think it would come to that, and they don't think it would work. look, we can do as you suggest. that's a problem passing the original bill without. that's fine but it's not going anyplace in the united states center. it's going to have an attached to it and it will come back. gene, at that point comi
they failed us. we've looked to her congressman to do that, into your credit, 40 times you guys have come in and said to get rid of it. insanity definition is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance. and it's more than just comment on who's going to win the political power play if we shut down government. it's going to be what with the future of our country look like in a decade. because once the tentacles are there, it's, it's, it's too...
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what they're used to. they have all been competing for that, and they -- everything that's what employers want. frankly, i think we've got a whole lot more out of me writing evaluations of them in a more detailed way that talks about their strengths and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation and a letter grade. >> do you find a difference between students who take out student loans are students who have their parents pay for it or have -- >> not that, but i do find a difference between students to work and those who don't. so the students who are working, this is their money, write-in. students to take out the loans, it is eventually going to be their money, but to them it's kind of summer in the future. those who are working, they're putting in the sweat equity right now to get the education, and i think that they're generally more since students, and they certainly demand more of all of us in the classroom. >> in the book, "how to succeed in college," you have a
what they're used to. they have all been competing for that, and they -- everything that's what employers want. frankly, i think we've got a whole lot more out of me writing evaluations of them in a more detailed way that talks about their strengths and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation and a letter grade. >> do you find a difference between students who take out student loans are students who have their parents pay for it or have -- >>...
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we are comfortable using that. would use that in the past. we just need to continue to evolve and make sure that we make this a tenant by the way to go about protecting information, whether it is at the federal or the private levels. >> great, thank you. i know we have the question. before we get to the two questions, i see a ferc commissioner tony clark. if you would stand up for us. i didn't allies you're going to be here. we would have certainly had you. no, and we thank you for being here. i know your advisor is here as well. if she could stand it. we appreciate both you being here. we know the hard work you do and we know this is important to you, or you wouldn't be here. i will have to say, it's rare that you see a commissioner in an open audience when they are not serving on a panel so i think it says a lot about commissioner clark. we appreciate your attention to detail and service, and appreciate you. let's give them a hand. [applause] >> first question. >> my name is david. i write for forbes, and my question is for dogs although i
we are comfortable using that. would use that in the past. we just need to continue to evolve and make sure that we make this a tenant by the way to go about protecting information, whether it is at the federal or the private levels. >> great, thank you. i know we have the question. before we get to the two questions, i see a ferc commissioner tony clark. if you would stand up for us. i didn't allies you're going to be here. we would have certainly had you. no, and we thank you for being...